How many Cherry Trees reside in your city?
In an effort to study the effects of climate change on flowering Cherry Trees, scientists in London will be conducting a national census for the popular species.
The three-year survey will use data from the general public, reports Yahoo! News.
So, this begs the question, how many Cherry Trees are [...]
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Monday, April 5, 7-9 a.m. and 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Tea Under the Cherry Trees with members of the Tree Steward Coalition, Waterfront Park, NW Everett & Naito Parkway
Tuesday, April 6, 1-3 p.m.
Arbor Day Celebration with Commissioner Nick Fish, West Powellhurst Park & Elementary School, SE 115 & Division
Fun, food & tree activities
Community & student tree [...]
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The Japanese Meteorological Agency announced last week that the cherry blossoms in Tokyo were in bloom, officially kicking off the viewing season.
For a society that has a phrase in its language (sakura zensen) describing the specific front of warmth that blooms cherry blossoms, this is no small announcement.
An excerpt from In Transit, a blog from [...]
These tree tips, specific for the months of March and April, come courtesy of Collier Arbor Care, a Friends of Trees sponsor:
Evaluate trees and prune, removing dead wood and maintaining structure
Treat early blooming flowering and fruit trees, like peaches, plums, and cherries for disease problems
Treat for leaf blight diseases on dogwood, sycamore and flowering trees
Treat [...]
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Seven new fruit trees were planted Saturday at the Sabin Neighborhood’s new community orchard.
Mayor Sam Adams, along with Commissioner Amanda Fritz, joined the Portland Fruit Tree Project and other volunteers to plant the fruit trees: pear; asian pear; apple; persimmon; fig; plum; and cherry.
Supported by a grant from the city of Portland’s Neighborhood Small Grants [...]
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Any presidential historians out there?
Despite his axe-wielding abilities, was ‘Honest Abe’ a secret admirer of the Cherry Tree?
On President Lincoln’s birthday, let us honor the White Oak, the state tree for his home state of Illinois—even though the president was actually born in what state?
–Toshio Suzuki
In 1939, Al Capone contracted syphilis and commandeered an entire floor of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for about a week.
In thanks, he “planted” two Weeping Cherry Trees.
The remaining 70-year-old tree split in two Saturday and is going to need professional care to survive.
“I can’t care if Capone was infamous or just famous, that [...]